The Construction of Corporeality of Young Women with Eating Disorder Experience

This work focuses on the issue of female corporeality in the context of adaptation to a new bodily reality after eating disorders. Eating disorders are among the most deadly mental illnesses and have extremely severe consequences for mental and physical health. This problem is especially acute in the context of the experience of young women. People who have experienced eating disorder face a difficult process of adapting to their new physicality as a result of changing shape and structure of the body, as well as changing habits and bodily practices. Using a narrative approach, 20 semi-structured interviews with young women were collected and analyzed. Based on the analyzed empirical material, models of rethinking old and creating new practices of corporeality construction in the process of searching and understanding one's own body were identified.